This is an analysis of the poem New Heavens – New Earth (Christmas, 1916) that begins with:
Nigh Bethlehem town poor shepherds heard
Beside their cotes a wondrous word:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabBXX aaccddee BXffffccb XX ggXXee bXhhccee ffccbBXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,9,2,6,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111101 01110101 10100101 10100101 101001110 1101111000 00111101 01110101 11011101 01001100 11011111 110101011 01010101 010111011 10100101 110111000 11011111 11011111 111111001 01010111 11010101 11000101 11111101 101001110 1101111000 01110101 11111111 01111111 0101100100 01110101 110010111 11010101 11110111 11111111 01001101 11011101 11010101 11011101 01000111 11010111 11010111 11010111 01011101 10100111 10100101 1101101110 110111000
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, you, for, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'nowell, the, you, and are repeated.
The author used the same word 'nowell at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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